Our Lady of Guadalupe and the miracle of the Tilma

La Our Lady of Guadalupe he is one of Mexico's most revered religious figures and an important symbol for the Mexican people. This icon represents the country's cultural complexity and diversity, uniting indigenous heritage with Catholic spirituality, which is why she has become such a significant figure in the life and faith of the Mexican people.

Its story unfolds in 1531, when the Virgin Mary appeared to an indigenous farmer named Juan Diego. The Virgin asked him to build a sanctuary on the site of the apparition, near the hill of Tepeyac, north of Mexico City.

According to tradition, Juan Diego was walking along the mountain Tepeyac when he saw the Madonna appear. She asked him to build one santuario in that place and to convey his message to the Archbishop of Mexico City. When Juan Diego went to meet the archbishop, he opened his tilma to show his Pink that Our Lady had made to grow miraculously in the middle of winter. But the most surprising thing was what was imprinted on the tilma itself: theimage of the Virgin Mary.

The Tilma retraces the journey of the Holy Shroud

The Tilma retraces the same path as the Holy Shroud, in fact in the 1791, some workers while cleaning the frame in which the tilma was enclosed, accidentally poured thenitric acid. But nothing, the image remained unharmed. Looking at it better then, it was noticed that there weren't even the ones on the image dust or dead insectsdespite the passage of time. In the 1936, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Richard Kuln, he examined two threads of the tilma, one red and one yellow and no trace of dyes of any kind was found on the fibers.

In 1929 then, a photographer Alfonso Gonzales, observing the right eye of the image, he noticed that the image of some human figures could be seen in the pupil. No painter could have ever imprinted such images inside the pupils of a painting. In those eyes were imprinted the people present at the time when the clairvoyant he opened the mantle full of roses in which the Image of the was formed Madonna.